So far, there is no good evidence that sars-cov2 causes long term lung damage at higher rates than other respiratory infections.
Several of your links are specifically about pulmonary fibrosis. Its a scary condition that has a zillion potential causes, including viral and bacterial infections of many different kinds, pneumonia of all kinds, environmental pollutants, medications, etc. And of course there is the dreaded idiopathic fibrosis -- that for which there is no identifiable cause. It won't be the least bit surprising if scientists discover that most cases of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are actually viral in origin.
And again, there is currently no evidence that sars-cov2 causes pulmonary fibrosis any more often than other viral infections. That might change, and the condition is truly scary, but right now the evidence doesn't justify the scary headlines.
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